Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
    • About this site
    • Current Bloggers
    • Past Bloggers
    • Privacy Policy
  • Register
  • Help
    • User/Commenter Tips
    • Glossary
    • Contact Us
  • Log In
Times for The Times: Times and comments on The Times crossword from a team of solvers

Day: 23rd February 2022

Times Quick Cryptic 2077 by Orpheus

Author   william_j_sPosted on 23rd February 2022 at 12:15 AM10 September 2025Categories Quick Cryptic

A bottom to top solve, in which 1ac gave me the most trouble. Definitions underlined. Across 1 Eccentric chap — Welsh (8) CAMBRIAN – CAM (eccentric) and BRIAN (chap). This was my LOI having had … Read more “Times Quick Cryptic 2077 by Orpheus”

View80 Comments on Times Quick Cryptic 2077 by Orpheus

Times 28221 – the setter’s revenge?

Author   piquetPosted on 23rd February 2022 at 12:10 AM10 September 2025Categories Daily Cryptic

Perhaps I have been too ready, on recent Wednesdays, to say too otfen that the puzzles were fun but lacked challenge or obscurity. Anyway, this one was hard and had several obscurities, as far as … Read more “Times 28221 – the setter’s revenge?”

View45 Comments on Times 28221 – the setter’s revenge?

Posts By Month

February 2022
M T W T F S S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28  
« Jan   Mar »

Archives

Post Categories

  • Announcement
  • Daily Cryptic
  • Jumbo Cryptic
  • Meetups and Events
  • Mephisto
  • Monthly Club Special
  • Other Crosswords
  • Quick Cryptic
  • Site Updates
  • Weekend Cryptic

Useful Links

  • Blogging Calendar
  • 15x15 Crossword SNITCH
  • Quick Cryptic Crossword SNITCH
  • Glossary
  • Quick Cryptic Guide
  • BBC4 Documentary How to Solve A Cryptic Crossword

Times Crossword Championship 2025

  • Qualifier Results
  • Semi-Final Results
  • Final Results

Other solving Blogs

  • Fifteensquared - Independent, Guardian, FT & more
  • Big Dave's Telegraph Crossword Blog
  • Crosaire - Irish Times cryptic puzzle
  • Listen with others - Listener blogs
  • George vs the Listener Crossword
  • Rex Parker does the New York Times xwd
  • Ottawa Citizen (syndicated Sunday Times)

Syndicated Times puzzles

The Australian - links to our reports

Free online editions of UK dictionaries

  • Oxford English Dictionary
  • Chambers 21st Century
  • Collins

Other crossword sites

  • Times Crossword Club (subscription needed)
  • Weekend Quick Cryptics
  • Magpie magazine
  • Crossword Unclued
  • Crosswords by Anax
  • The Listener Crossword - official site
  • Best for Puzzles - Michael Curl's site with puzzles and Who's Who
  • Henri Picciotto & Joshua Kosman's Word Salad

Contact Us

Send email to Times for The Times Admin using our Contact Form

Dark mode switch

  • Home
  • About
    • About this site
    • Current Bloggers
    • Past Bloggers
    • Privacy Policy
  • Register
  • Help
    • User/Commenter Tips
    • Glossary
    • Contact Us
  • Log In
Times for The Times